Why I use the overear headphones

I deeply respect both the pedagogical commitment to still teaching the students interested in doing the academic labor and the testing out of strategies that allow for that work.

Me, just simply existing on the daily in higher ed: “Well look at that. Another thing to put in the folder for my project on endless triage in higher ed.”

We actually need to do a better job teaching that not first understanding is a fundamental part of learning. But we’ve created a society where not immediately understanding is seen to be a deficit, one soon to be quantified via points missed on a quiz.

But I do look forward to being lectured about approved accommodations and especially by people who don’t know a single thing about the accommodations process and don’t want to know a thing because they actually don’t give a fuck.

Few analog learning champions of 2026 really care about whatever exclusions may result. I mean, disabled people fucking suck. Hell yeah, let’s exclude them! If someone has a medical condition that inhibits writing, well, they don’t deserve an education anyway!

Someone replied “inclusion of everyone in general classrooms,” which, not to get lost in semantics, would raise questions about the terms “inclusion” and “general.” Though education does have a long history of “exclusivity in exclusive classrooms,” certainly.

The second-person pronoun “you” has always been an interesting feature when it appears in students’ “academic” writing. And it remains so in generative AI output in ways that are both the same as and different than those previous interesting ways.

Just one?

85% of my academic reading. I have containers and containers of printed PDFs many of which have lived in three states and 5 homes + a storage unit.

How are you ever going to be named an assistant associate provost to the associate provost if you have not coined an acronym to sell a higher ed commodity?

There are many metrics to assess faculty achievement. But in managed, corporate, consumerist university only one matters: Have you created something requiring an acronym? Said more directly, have you coined an acronym? Congrats to those who have. The rest of us are failures.

I’ve failed to meet the learning outcomes.

I find myself often thinking about how I both did and didn’t think about being a professor for 40 years and even if anyone could still be a professor for 40 years. I’m very tired and 25 more years seems like a lot but also very unlikely. So very tired.

How exactly can AI come for writing?

The “universities are especially failing the workplace in this way” take. One of my personal favorites.